[e2e] how to use token bucket to reduce rate

Craig Partridge craig at aland.bbn.com
Fri Feb 22 06:23:11 PST 2002


In message <3BE120C3 at webmaila.ust.hk>, changxl writes:

>node s1 sends packets to node d1 , but the arrival rate at d1 shoule not 
>exceed a certain value. When this occurs, d1 should send source quench message
>to s1. HOw to implement this? And when s1 receives this quench message , how 
>does s1 use token bucket to reduce rate?

I don't know that anyone has ever combined source quench and token buckets.

But if you did, d1 would imply send the quench and on receive, s1 would
reduce its rate rho in the token bucket configuration (subject, of course,
to clock granularity issues).

Craig



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